Long Cove Creek Railway Viaducts, Lewisham
The Long Cove Creek railway viaducts are heritage-listed railway viaducts which carry the Main Suburban railway line over Long Cove Creek between the suburbs of Lewisham, New South Wales, Lewisham and Summer Hill, New South Wales, Summer Hill in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The viaducts were designed and built by the New South Wales Government Railways. The property is owned by Transport Asset Holding Entity, an government agency, agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The first section of railway built in New South Wales was opened as a single line from the Cleveland Paddocks (near Cleveland Street, Sydney, Cleveland Street overbridge) to a site west of Granville, New South Wales, Granville on 26 September 1855. It was duplicated by June 1856. The largest structure on the line was the 8-span stone arch viaduct over Long Cove Creek on the western side of Petersham, New South Wales ...
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Main Suburban Railway Line
The Main Suburban railway line is the technical name for the trunk railway line between Redfern railway station and Parramatta railway station in Sydney, Australia, but now generally refers to the section between Redfern and where the Old Main South Line branches off at Granville Junction. The railway line then continues on as the Main Western line towards the Blue Mountains. This term distinguished this trunk line from the Illawarra Line which branched south from the Illawarra Junction to Wollongong, and later the North Shore tracks which carried trains north over the Harbour Bridge. History The Main Suburban line between Redfern and Granville was the first railway line to be constructed in New South Wales. The first company to start rail transport in New South Wales was the Sydney Railway Company which was incorporated on 10 October 1849 with the aim of building a railway from Sydney to Parramatta. Capital was raised, shares were sold, and a route was surveyed. The ...
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